Theory question 104
Concern for Judah(a) Let us build with you; for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to Him ever since…, Narrate the events that followed this request of the Samaritans. (b) State four causes of tension among neighbours.
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(a) Zerubbabel, Jeshua and the heads of families refused: "You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God" (Ezra 4:3).
They said they alone would build it, as King Cyrus commanded (Ezra 4:3).
The people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build (Ezra 4:4).
They hired counsellors against them to frustrate their purpose through the reign of Cyrus until Darius (Ezra 4:5).
In the reign of Ahasuerus they wrote an accusation (Ezra 4:6).
Rehum and Shimshai wrote to Artaxerxes that Jerusalem was a rebellious city that would stop paying tribute (Ezra 4:8-16).
The king ordered the work stopped (Ezra 4:17-22).
They forced the Jews to stop until the second year of Darius (Ezra 4:23-24).
(b) Any four: land and boundary disputes; gossip; jealousy; noise and disturbance; children's quarrels; religious or ethnic differences; unpaid debts.
Narrate Ezra 4:1-24, then four causes.